Biblical Worldview: Week 1

Numb

Romans 12:2

“Do not be conformed to this age, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may discern what is the good, pleasing, and perfect will of God.” (HCSB)

Ideas in Culture

George Lucas said:

“I've always tried to be aware of what I say in my films because all of us who make motion pictures are teachers,

teachers with very loud voices.”

Beliefs & the Common Cold Popular culture: describes the predominant ideas, values, and beliefs transmitted through movies, video games, music, television, books, magazines, radio, advertising and the internet.

A collection of values, themes, ideas and behavior popularized mainly through media and technology. The most visible forms of popular culture are seen in TV, movies, music, social media, etc.

What is a Worldview? Worldview: an interconnected set of ideas that shape our view of and for the world, and are the basis of our decisions and actions.

Most basic beliefs Answers to life's big questions Interpretations of life and the

world Starting point for all

decisions/actions

Worldview is like...

a pair of glasses: you need the right prescription in order to see the world clearly and accurately.

Asking the Right Questions

How did life get here?

What is wrong with the world?

Can we make the world better?

The Fall affected it all

Redemption Pays Our Way

What about God? Theology What is true and how do we know it? Philosophy

How should we behave? Ethics What is the origin of life? Biology What is human nature? Psychology What makes a healthy society? Sociology What is the basis for law? Law What is the purpose of government? Politics How should we use our resources? Economics What is the meaning of history? History

Worldview = what IS and what SHOULD BE

Biblical Christian Worldview Christians have very gradually “become disturbed over permissiveness, pornography, the public schools, the breakdown of the family and finally abortion. But they have not seen this as a totality---each thing being a part, a symptom of a much larger problem. They have failed to see that all of this has come about due to the shift in worldview---that is, through afundamentalchange in theoverall waypeople think and view theworld and lifeas a whole.”

Ideas Have Consequences

How do You View the World?